Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-11-04

| Mrs. y. vanderbilt pays her uoctOl
$40, 900 a year, and Mrs William Astoi
pays $4,000. Mrs.. Ellis, an Ameri-
can lady, physician to the Queen o
Corea, receives SIS, 900 year. At al
meeting of the County Medical Society
two white-haired physicians, with
whom. reporter, talked, agreed in say
ing that at least one-half of the prac-
! tising physicians OF New York re-
ceived incomes of $4,000 a year and up
ward.
| The critical condition of the rela-
tions between China and Corea may,
be largely traced to the opening OF
the latter country to intercourse with
the United States and with European
powers. So long as the hermit king
dom" remained true to its conditions
of issolation, it's real political status as
regards China was an affair which
evidently troubled very little the two
countries chiefly concerned. But with
the entrance of vessels other than
Chinese and Japanese into Corean
ports, and the making Of regular COM
mercial treaties with the leading pow
ers of the world, the peninsula acquired
new interests, and the question
whether China had a real or only
nominal sovereignty over it became
| of the first importance. The act
which has caused the sudden with
drawal OF the Chinese minister from
Seoul is the appointment OF ministers
| to represent Corea in European
courts; but while this may be a pecul-
iarly open and ostentatious assertion
of independence, the very making OF
treaties was, after all, in itself an as
sumption of sovereign power. Should
war result, unless Corea should find
some ally, China would be able with
her navy to blockade its ports. and
thus make it once more, against its
will, Il hermit kingdom.
That much Tilted youth, Earl Cairns,
or, as he is more generally known,
Lord Garmoyle, has just inherited a
fortune of $5,00O,000. His improved
ExcheQuer will, no doubt, greatly
facilitate his matrimonial prospects.
He once was the accepted suitor Of
Miss Fortescue, who tried to act in
New York last season, but he broke
off the match and breach of promise
suit resulted, in which she recovered
$5O, 900 from the idiotic sprig of no.
biiity. Pending the trial, the cores
pondence of both parties was publish
ed. London was amazed at the re-
markable literary skill displayed
by Miss Fortesque in her love letters
until day or two later, when it was
discovered that the lackadaisical
creature had simply copied whole
pages of a Lovers Ready Letter
Writer" Miss Adele Grant, the
American beauty, was his )ordship's
next fiancee, and it is said the match
was broken off by Miss Grant on the
advice OF the Prince Of Wales, because
her noble lover had not paid for the
presents he had made her and was
over-anxious for q settlement of the
dowry before marriage.
Senor Canovas del Castillo, ex-Pre-
mier and leader of the Conservative
party in Spain, after several years
courtship is to be married in October
to Mile. Joaauina de Osma, second
daughter to the Marquis de Puente y
Soto. Mile. de Osma is described by
London correspondent as one of the
leaders of fashion, and a belle of the
Madrid court for the last twelve years.
She is about thirty-six, of middle
height, of graceful figure. exceedingly
distiaaus in her manners, and with
regular and handsome features, She
refused several mobiles OF Spain Of the
proudest nobility and foreign suitors
of rank, till, persevering in her deter
mination to overcome resistance which
her mother opposed for the last ten
years to her marrying Senior Canovas,
who is a widower sixty years old, and
who is not wealthy but who was famed
for his gallantry with the fair sex, she
succeeded in overcoming it.
The capture OF four Englishmen
near Smyrna has again called atten-
tion to the prevalence OF brigandage
throughout Turkey. Scarcely a day
passes in which the local papers do
not mention new captures. In Mace
donia and along the shores of Asia
Minor to within twenty miles of the
capital brigands are everywhere. The
want of railways and other means OF
communication makes their escape
easy. Many OF them are believed to
| be in league with the police,
who are usually unpaid, and
in case of the brigands being
Turks they are believed to be unwilling
to attempt capture even when
bribed. A notorious scoundrel, the
captain of band within forty miles of
| the capital, boasts of having killed
twentv-seven with his own hand. He
was captured two years ago, but was
allowed to escape.
Several years ago William Gibbons,
a brother OF Sir John Gibbons, of
Stanwell Place, England, came to New
Haven, where he lived and died. He
was buried in the Whitneyville ceme-
terry, and Elias Dickerman, the execu-
tor of the estate, paid $l75 for lot
and monument. In 1880 he found
that the sale had not been properly
recorded, end he allowed the body to
be taken up and reburied in corner
of the cemetery. The body of Amelia
Gilbert was put in the place of the
dead Englishman, and later the body
of her husband was laid alongside of
hers, the Gibbons estate paving for
all this. Sir John now asks that
executor Dickerman be compelled to
put the body of William Gibbons
where the monument indicates that
he was buried. The curious case will
be tried in New Haven.
Sir Charles and Lady Dixie have
had an extraordinary reception from
the Sultan. They were received
twice in audience at his wish, and
special state banquet given them,
when all the ministers and household
were present. Dixie refused the Grand
Gordon Of the Medjidieh, but Lady
Dixie accepted the Grand Gordon OF